Some More Thoughts on Unfuddled
Well, I've been playing with Unfuddled for a while now as I work on tasks, add notebooks for provisional user stories. I've got a few more things for my wishlist . . .
Trying Unfuddle
I'm in the market for some project management software. I need something to manage a single dev (me) on small 100-300 hour projects with stories, time tracking, some kind of widget or IDE integration, a simple wiki or cms for sharing notes and svn integration (see my previous article for the detailed requirements.) I'm not sure Unfuddled is exactly what I'm looking for. I don't like the lack of stories (I can only roll up tasks by milestones so I need to treat each story as a milestone which is not really ideal), but it is there, it looks like it should work, and it's quick to get started with. And the corporate version which includes time tracking and unlimited projects is $49/mo, so that's about where I wanted to be financially. Anyhow, I decided to give it a go for this project. Here's my experience . . .
Selecting Project Management Software
These days I'm starting to take on more consulting projects so in addition to the generated sites which typically only take a few man hours, I can get to play with some more interesting/custom projects which typically run 100-300 man hours (if you have any fun ones you might want some help with next year, feel free to comment and I'll email you offline!). It is great because I can still use the SPL to create well architected apps more quickly than hand coding, but I also get to write some more custom functionality and to spend the time to create a really great solution. However, I need some project management software to help, so I did a quick review of some of the alternatives - from Trac and LightHouse to Mingle and Rally Software. Here's how it turned out . . .
